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The shanzhai industry -- China's copycat manufacturing culture
-- is scaling. What started as "improved" local versions of
iPhones has spread to buildings: on the outskirts of Shanghai,
streets from the Netherlands, England and Sweden have been
recreated; in the Changsha suburbs sits a full-sized Egyptian
pyramid; and outside Hangzhou, there's an Eiffel Tower. American
photographer Matthew
Niederhauser has been documenting these neighbourhoods and
hopes to publish a collection, Counterfeit Paradises, this
year.